Bug#472705: marked as done (lintian: Add exception for packages build-depending on octave-pkg-dev)
Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org> writes:
> The octave-pkg-dev is not so unrelated to the octave-* packages, because
> they are maintained by the same team. I am closing this bug report and I
> will probably implement a Lintian override in octave-pkg-dev, such that
> maintenance of the almost 40 octave-* packages will be easier.
You find it easier to add an override to 40 packages than to just add the
build dependency on cdbs, when other people have told you that having the
explicit build dependency makes managing the Debian archive as a whole
easier? *boggle*.
I think your reasoning here doesn't make much sense. Please don't do
this; please just add the dependency and be done with it.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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